Subj : system of choice
To   : Tony Langdon
From : Alexey Vissarionov
Date : Thu Aug 15 2019 20:55:20

Good ${greeting_time}, Tony!

09 Aug 2019 19:53:00, you wrote to me:

 AV>> After reading a quite long discussion (for this echoarea), I'd also
 AV>> like to share my experience.
 AV>> As I work in IT sphere since 1994, I've seen almost all Linux-based
 AV>> systems appearing, emerging and (most of them) dying. For now, I
 AV>> came to just two parameters of a GNU/Linux-based system I'd consider
 AV>> a quality mark:
 AV>> 1. RPM packages
 TL> Why RPM?

Besause it is a quality mark.

 TL> dpkg offers similar functionality.

Have you tried building rpm and deb packages?

 TL> I will use systems that use either.

Your choice...

 AV>> 2. SysV init
 TL> Sadly, seems to be a dying breed these days, with systemd taking over
 TL> on a lot of distros.

We have distributions with both. And even more: some experienced admin may 
switch from one to other and back again.

 TL> I haven't got my head around systemd, but know one of these days I
 TL> really need to get to know it, because like it or not, I will be
 TL> using systems that are based on systemd.

The old good CentOS 6 will reach EOL this year... and we expect some users 
moving to us :-)

 TL> That said, I quite like SysV init. It's straightforward and orderly.
 TL> Most of my systems still use it.

Same thing here. The only advantage of systemd is the startup dependencies 
concept, but that's really easy to implement with SysVinit - just declare 
"status" command as mandatory.

E.g. `service nginx start` may check whether `service network status` is 
"running".


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